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'IO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, ISAAC B. HYMER, of Warsaw, in the county of Kosciusko, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Railroad Rail; and I do hereby declaro the following to be a full, clear, and exact .description of the Same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which thc invention appertains to make use of it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Fignre 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section.

This rail is compounded of four pieces, ot' which one forms the base and the central supporting ange, which is embraced by two side pieces, whose upper portions form a dove-tailed socket for the Bange underneath the upper cast-steel tra-ck rail.

In the drawings5 A is a portion whose transverse section resembles an inverted i, thus: 3,. Its foot with lateral flanges forms the support of the rail, and its upward portion is embraced between two pieces, B B, which are bolted through and through by the bolts and nuts C C. At the upper port of these side pieces are 'dovetailed notches, which together form a socket to contain the lower ilangc d oi' the upper cast-steel rail D which forms the track. .This upper portion may be removed as oiten as occasion may require, and the various portions may be so attached as to break joints, not having any two joints occur in thc same point in the length of the combined rail. The pieces AB B are made of iron, and are not subjected to Wear. The bolt-holes will bo somewhat oblong to admit of expansion end contraction.

Having described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Potent, is- I claim the rail D, having a dove-tailed tenou clasped between the side plates B B, which are supported against and upon the bed rail A, substantially as described and represented.

ISAAC B. HYMER.

Witnesses: i

E. V. Loue, WILLIAM DUNLA. 

